This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Tower Hamlets Environment Trust
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Battle of Cable Street - Dock Street
The red colour of this plaque is, we're sure, chosen on purely aesthetic grou...
Daniel Mendoza
Daniel Mendoza, pugilist, 1764 - 1836, English champion who proudly billed hi...
George Lansbury - E14
Near this place on July 29th 1921 George Lansbury led the people and councill...
Manny Shinwell
The plaque was not there when we first visited the site. We have returned sev...
Other Subjects
Elizabeth Fry Refuge
Otherwise known as the Elizabeth Fry Institute for Reformation of Women Prisoners. JaneAusten (don't ask) gives some information; to quote: "Following {Fry's} death in 1845, a meeting chaired by t...
1 memorial
Edith Neville
A local reformer honoured with the naming of a primary school after her. Known for her work with the St Pancras Housing Association, she also founded the St Pancras People's Theatre. Elsewhere, w...
1 memorial
Columbia Market
In 1852, the area Novia Scotia Gardens being a notorious slum, Angela Burdett-Coutts bought it with the intention of developing healthy accommodation for the poor and a market for their use. Howeve...
2 memorials
Society for Improving the Conditions of the Labouring Classes
Founded as the Labourer's Friend Society by Lord Shaftesbury intending to improve working class conditions. It was keen on the provision of allotments. 1844 it changed its name to the Society for I...
1 memorial
Stratford Co-operative and Industrial Society Ltd
The picture shows the first premises of this organisation, before they moved in, at the corner of Falmouth Street and Maryland Street in Stratford. Started by a group of men at Stratford Railway W...
1 memorial